Mahabharata — Volume IV (Dutt edition) — Chapter 95
MBh 4 95.1
संजय उवाच विमुखीकृत्य सर्वांस्तु तावकान् राक्षसः। जिघांसुर्भरतश्रेष्ठ दुर्योधनमुपाद्रवत्॥
saṃjaya uvāca vimukhīkṛtya sarvāṃstu tāvakān rākṣasaḥ| jighāṃsurbharataśreṣṭha duryodhanamupādravat||
Sanjaya said Having made all your warriors turn their faces away from field of battle, the Rakshasa, 0 foremost of the Bharatas, assaulted Duryodhana out of a desire for slaying him.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.2
तमापतन्तं सम्प्रेक्ष्य राजानं प्रति वेगितम्। अभ्यधावञ्जिघांसन्तस्तावका युद्धदुर्मदाः॥
tamāpatantaṃ samprekṣya rājānaṃ prati vegitam| abhyadhāvañjighāṃsantastāvakā yuddhadurmadāḥ||
Beholding him make towards the king with impetuosity, your warriors, all invincible in battle, rushed at him, desirous of doing away with him.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.3
तालमात्राणि चापानि विकर्षन्तो महारथाः। तमेकमभ्यधावन्त नदन्तः सिंहसंघवत्॥
tālamātrāṇi cāpāni vikarṣanto mahārathāḥ| tamekamabhyadhāvanta nadantaḥ siṃhasaṃghavat||
Those mighty car-warriors, stretching their bows that looked like large palmyar trees, and uttering their war-cries loud as the roars of the lions, rushed at him shooting weapons at him.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.4
अथैनं शरवर्षेण समन्तात् पर्यवाकिरन्। पर्वतं वारिधाराभिः शरदीव बलाहकाः॥
athainaṃ śaravarṣeṇa samantāt paryavākiran| parvataṃ vāridhārābhiḥ śaradīva balāhakāḥ||
Then they covered him with an arrow downpour, like clouds covering the mountains with a downpour of rain in the rainy season.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.5
स गाढविद्धो व्यथितस्तोत्रादित इव द्विपः। उत्पपात तदाऽऽकाशं समन्ताद् वैनतेयवत्॥
sa gāḍhaviddho vyathitastotrādita iva dvipaḥ| utpapāta tadā''kāśaṃ samantād vainateyavat||
Thus pierced sore, and greatly afflicted like an elephant smitten with the hook, the Rakshasa then at once rose to the sky like the son of Vainatay Garuda,
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.6
व्यनदत् सुमहानादं जीमूत इव शारदः। दिशः खं विदिशश्चैव नादयन् भैरवस्वनः॥
vyanadat sumahānādaṃ jīmūta iva śāradaḥ| diśaḥ khaṃ vidiśaścaiva nādayan bhairavasvanaḥ||
Then he uttered a loud roar that resembled the rumble of autumnal clouds; and that dreadful reverberated through the subsidiary and cardinal points of the compass.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.7
राक्षसस्य तु तं शब्दं श्रुत्वा राजा युधिष्ठिरः। उवाच भरतश्रेष्ठ भीमसेनमरिंदमम्॥
rākṣasasya tu taṃ śabdaṃ śrutvā rājā yudhiṣṭhiraḥ| uvāca bharataśreṣṭha bhīmasenamariṃdamam||
King Yudhishthira hearing those war-cries of the Rakshasa, thus spoke, O foremost of the Bharatas, to Bhimasena the subduer of foes.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.8
युध्यते राक्षसो नूनं धार्तराष्ट्रैर्महारथैः। यथाऽस्य श्रूयते शब्दो नदतो भैरवं स्वनम्॥
yudhyate rākṣaso nūnaṃ dhārtarāṣṭrairmahārathaiḥ| yathā'sya śrūyate śabdo nadato bhairavaṃ svanam||
"Surely the Rakshasa is fighting with mighty car-warriors of the host of Dhritarashtra's son, in as much as we can hear, (even at this distance), the noise created by his fierce cries.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.9
अतिभारं च पश्यामि तस्मिन् राक्षसपुङ्गवे। पितामहश्च संक्रुद्धः पञ्चालान् हन्तुमुद्यतः॥
atibhāraṃ ca paśyāmi tasmin rākṣasapuṅgave| pitāmahaśca saṃkruddhaḥ pañcālān hantumudyataḥ||
I also perceive that foremost of Rakshasas has now to bear a burden unequal to his strength; on the other hand, the grandsire inflamed with rage is exerting for slaughtering the Panchalas.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.10
तेषां च रक्षणार्थाय युध्यते फाल्गुनः परैः। एतज्ञात्वा महाबाहो कार्यद्वयमुपस्थितम्॥
teṣāṃ ca rakṣaṇārthāya yudhyate phālgunaḥ paraiḥ| etajñātvā mahābāho kāryadvayamupasthitam||
For the protection of these latter, Falguna is engaged with the foe. Having heard, O mighty armed hero, of these two tasks both of which demand prompt attention,
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.11
गच्छ रक्षस्व हैडिम्बं संशयं परमं गतम्। भ्रातुर्वचनमाज्ञाय त्वरमाणो वृकोदरः॥
gaccha rakṣasva haiḍimbaṃ saṃśayaṃ paramaṃ gatam| bhrāturvacanamājñāya tvaramāṇo vṛkodaraḥ||
He yourself for rescuing the son of Hidimba involved in a great predicament.” Accepting the words of his brother, without the least delay, Vrikodara.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.12
प्रययौ सिंहनादेन त्रासयन् सर्वपार्थिवान्। वेगेन महता राजन् पर्वकाले यथोदधिः॥
prayayau siṃhanādena trāsayan sarvapārthivān| vegena mahatā rājan parvakāle yathodadhiḥ||
Proceeded to the battle, terrifying all the kings with his fierce war-cries, an, O king, with an impetuosity like that of the ocean in the days of the full moon or the new moon.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.13
तमन्वगात् सत्यधृतिः सौचित्तियुद्धदुर्मदः। श्रेणिमान् वसुदानश्च पुत्रः काश्यस्य चाभिभूः॥
tamanvagāt satyadhṛtiḥ saucittiyuddhadurmadaḥ| śreṇimān vasudānaśca putraḥ kāśyasya cābhibhūḥ||
Him followed Satyadhriti and Sauchitti ever invincible in battle, and Shrenimat and Vasudhara and the puissant son of the king of the Kashis,
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.14
अभिमन्युमुखाश्चैव द्रौपदेया महारथाः। क्षत्रदेवश्च विक्रान्तः क्षत्रधर्मा तथैव च॥
abhimanyumukhāścaiva draupadeyā mahārathāḥ| kṣatradevaśca vikrāntaḥ kṣatradharmā tathaiva ca||
The sons of Draupadi, all mighty carwarriors headed by Abhimanyu, and Kshatradeva, the powerful Kshatradharman,
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.15
अनूपाधिपतिश्चैव नीलः स्वबलमास्थितः। महता रथवंशेन हैडिम्बं पर्यवारयन्॥
anūpādhipatiścaiva nīlaḥ svabalamāsthitaḥ| mahatā rathavaṃśena haiḍimbaṃ paryavārayan||
And Nila the sovereign of the low countries accompanied by his own divisions. They surrounded the son of Hidimba with a mighty division of cars.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.16
कुञ्जरैश्च सदा मत्तैः षट्सहस्रैः प्रहारिभिः। अभ्यरक्षन्त सहिता राक्षसेन्द्रं घटोत्कचम्॥
kuñjaraiśca sadā mattaiḥ ṣaṭsahasraiḥ prahāribhiḥ| abhyarakṣanta sahitā rākṣasendraṃ ghaṭotkacam||
With six thousand highly infuriated elephants, all potent smiters, those heroes began to protect Ghatotkacha that foremost of the Rakshasas.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.17
सिंहनादेन महता नेमिघोषेण चैव ह। खुरशब्दनिपातैश्च कम्पयन्तो वसुन्धराम्॥
siṃhanādena mahatā nemighoṣeṇa caiva ha| khuraśabdanipātaiśca kampayanto vasundharām||
These warriors made the very earth quake with their fierce war-cries, the clatter of their car-wheels, the sound produced by the hoofs of their galloping horses.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.18
तेषामापततां श्रुत्वा शब्दं त तावकं बलम्। भीमसेनभयोद्विग्नं विवर्णवदनं तथा॥
teṣāmāpatatāṃ śrutvā śabdaṃ ta tāvakaṃ balam| bhīmasenabhayodvignaṃ vivarṇavadanaṃ tathā||
Hearing that noise of the assaulting army, the warriors of the army of your sons, wore a pallid countenance being agitated with the fear of Bhimasena;
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.19
परिवृत्तं महाराज परित्यज्य घटोत्कचम्। ततः प्रववृते युद्धं तत्र तेषां महात्मनाम्॥ तावकानां परेषां च संग्रामेष्वनिवर्तिनाम्। नानारूपाणि शस्त्राणि विसृजन्तो महारथाः॥
parivṛttaṃ mahārāja parityajya ghaṭotkacam| tataḥ pravavṛte yuddhaṃ tatra teṣāṃ mahātmanām|| tāvakānāṃ pareṣāṃ ca saṃgrāmeṣvanivartinām| nānārūpāṇi śastrāṇi visṛjanto mahārathāḥ||
And leaving Ghatotkacha alone, they turned back from the field of battle. But the combatants of your army and those of the enemy's host were both entreating; so there once more ensured, O mighty monarch, a terrible battle, between these high-souled warriors. Mighty car-warriors hurling weapons of various shapes,
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.20
अन्योन्यमभिधावन्तः सम्प्रहारं प्रचक्रिरे। व्यतिषक्तं महारौद्रं युद्धं भीरुभयावहम्॥
anyonyamabhidhāvantaḥ samprahāraṃ pracakrire| vyatiṣaktaṃ mahāraudraṃ yuddhaṃ bhīrubhayāvaham||
Rushed at one another and then smote down one another. Thus raged the most dreadful combat capable of inspiring terror into the hearts of the cowards.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.21
हया गजैः समाजग्मुः पादाता रथिभिः सह। अन्योन्यं समरे राजन् प्रार्थयानाः समभ्ययुः॥
hayā gajaiḥ samājagmuḥ pādātā rathibhiḥ saha| anyonyaṃ samare rājan prārthayānāḥ samabhyayuḥ||
Horse-soldiers encountered elephant-riders and foot-soldiers fought with the car-warriors; challenging one another in battle they rushed against one another, O king.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.22
सहसा चाभवत् तीव्र संनिपातान्महद् रजः। गजाश्वरथपत्तीनां पदनेमिसमुद्धतम्॥
sahasā cābhavat tīvra saṃnipātānmahad rajaḥ| gajāśvarathapattīnāṃ padanemisamuddhatam||
In consequence of this on sleight of cars, horses, elephants, and infantry, a thick and impenetrable cloud of dust appeared being raised by the car-wheels and tread of the footsoldier.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.23
धूम्रारुणं रजस्तीव्र रणभूमि समावृणोत्। नैव स्वेन परे राजन् समजानन् परस्परम्॥
dhūmrāruṇaṃ rajastīvra raṇabhūmi samāvṛṇot| naiva svena pare rājan samajānan parasparam||
Then the field of battle, O king, was shrouded by a thick cloud of dust of the reddish hue of smoke; and none was able to distinguish between his friend and his foe.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.24
पिता पुत्रं न जानीते पुत्रो वा पितरं तथा। निर्मर्यादे तथाभूते वैशसे लोमहर्षणे॥
pitā putraṃ na jānīte putro vā pitaraṃ tathā| nirmaryāde tathābhūte vaiśase lomaharṣaṇe||
Father could not distinguish his son nor the son his father, in that horripilating, carnage where no consideration was of any evil.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.25
शास्त्राणां भरतश्रेष्ठः मनुष्याणां च गर्जताम्। सुमहानभवच्छब्दः प्रेतानामिव भारत॥
śāstrāṇāṃ bharataśreṣṭhaḥ manuṣyāṇāṃ ca garjatām| sumahānabhavacchabdaḥ pretānāmiva bhārata||
The clashing of weapons and the yells of men, O foremost of the Bharatas, created a fierce din, that resembled the roar of demons themselves.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.26
गजवाजिमनुष्याणां शोणितान्त्रतरङ्गिणी। प्रावर्तत नदी तत्र केशशैवलशाद्वला॥
gajavājimanuṣyāṇāṃ śoṇitāntrataraṅgiṇī| prāvartata nadī tatra keśaśaivalaśādvalā||
On the field of battle a river started up into existence, of which the currents, were constituted by the gore of elephants, horses, and men, and the weeds and moss by the hair (of the warriors).
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.27
नराणां चैव कायेभ्यः शिरसां पततां रणे। शुश्रुवे सुमहाञ्छब्दः पततामश्मनामिव॥
narāṇāṃ caiva kāyebhyaḥ śirasāṃ patatāṃ raṇe| śuśruve sumahāñchabdaḥ patatāmaśmanāmiva||
A defending noise, like that produced by a shower of stones, was heard there, as the heads of the combatants fell on the field severed from their trunks.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.28
विशिरस्कैर्मनुष्यैश्च च्छिन्नगात्रैश्च वारणैः। अश्वैः सम्भिन्नदेहैश्च संकीर्णाभूद् वसुन्धरा॥
viśiraskairmanuṣyaiśca cchinnagātraiśca vāraṇaiḥ| aśvaiḥ sambhinnadehaiśca saṃkīrṇābhūd vasundharā||
The earth was covered with headless trucks with mutilated elephants and with horses with limbs mangled and hacked to pieces.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.29
नानाविधानि शस्त्राणि विसृजन्तो महारथाः। अन्योन्यमभिधावन्तः सम्प्रहारार्थमुद्यताः॥
nānāvidhāni śastrāṇi visṛjanto mahārathāḥ| anyonyamabhidhāvantaḥ samprahārārthamudyatāḥ||
Mighty car-warriors, putting forth all their energies rushed to smite down one another, hurling at the same time weapons of various kinds.
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MBh 4 95.30
हया हयान् समासाद्य प्रेषिता हयसादिभिः। समाहत्य रणेऽन्योन्यं निपेतुर्गतजीविताः॥
hayā hayān samāsādya preṣitā hayasādibhiḥ| samāhatya raṇe'nyonyaṃ nipeturgatajīvitāḥ||
Urged on by their riders, encountering one another, horses dashed against one another, and fell down on the field deprived of life.
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MBh 4 95.31
नरा नरान् समासाद्य क्रोधरक्तेक्षणा भृशम्। उरांस्युरोभिरन्योन्यं समाश्लिष्य निजनिरे॥
narā narān samāsādya krodharaktekṣaṇā bhṛśam| urāṃsyurobhiranyonyaṃ samāśliṣya nijanire||
Combatants, with eyes crimsoned in rage, meeting one another, struck one another with their breasts, and thus killed one another.
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MBh 4 95.32
प्रेषिताश्च ग्रमहामात्रैर्वारणाः परवारणैः। अभ्यघ्नन्त विषाणाग्रैर्वारणानेव संयुगे।॥
preṣitāśca gramahāmātrairvāraṇāḥ paravāraṇaiḥ| abhyaghnanta viṣāṇāgrairvāraṇāneva saṃyuge|||
Goaded on by their riders, elephants slew their hostile compeers with the ends of their tusks, in that battle.
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MBh 4 95.33
ते जातरुधिरोत्पीडाः पताकाभिरलंकृताः। संसक्ताः प्रत्यदृश्यन्त मेघा इव सविद्युतः॥
te jātarudhirotpīḍāḥ patākābhiralaṃkṛtāḥ| saṃsaktāḥ pratyadṛśyanta meghā iva savidyutaḥ||
These elephants decked with fluttering pennons and shedding blood in copious quantities and bespattered with it, appeared like clouds adorned by forks of lightening.
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MBh 4 95.34
मुमुचुः शोणितं भूरि केचिद् भिन्ना विषाणाचैर्भिन्नकुम्भाश्च तोमरैः। विनदन्तोऽभ्यधावन्त गर्जमाना घना इव॥
mumucuḥ śoṇitaṃ bhūri kecid bhinnā viṣāṇācairbhinnakumbhāśca tomaraiḥ| vinadanto'bhyadhāvanta garjamānā ghanā iva||
Some of these with bodies mangled with tusk wounds, others with their temples rent by broad-headed shafts, careered all over the field roaring like roaring clouds.
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MBh 4 95.35
केचिद्धस्तैर्द्विधा च्छिन्नैश्छिन्नगात्रास्तथाऽपरे। निपेतुस्तुमुले तस्मिंश्छिन्नपक्षा इवाद्रयः॥
keciddhastairdvidhā cchinnaiśchinnagātrāstathā'pare| nipetustumule tasmiṃśchinnapakṣā ivādrayaḥ||
Some with their trunks cut in twin, others with their bodies mutilated, fell down in that sanguinary battle, like mountains having their wings cut off.
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MBh 4 95.36
पार्श्वस्तु दारितैरन्ये वारणैर्वरवारणाः। धातूनिव महीधराः॥
pārśvastu dāritairanye vāraṇairvaravāraṇāḥ| dhātūniva mahīdharāḥ||
Other huge elephants having their sides opened by their hostile compeers, copiously shed blood like mountains discharging liquefied red chalk.
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MBh 4 95.37
नाराचनिहतास्त्वन्ये तथा विद्धाश्च तोमरैः। विनदन्तोऽभ्यधावन्त विशृंगा इव पर्वताः॥
nārācanihatāstvanye tathā viddhāśca tomaraiḥ| vinadanto'bhyadhāvanta viśṛṃgā iva parvatāḥ||
Others, slain with lances and pierced with Tomaras, with their riders killed, looked like mountains deprived of their crests.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.38
केचित् क्रोधसमाविष्टा मदान्धा निरवग्रहाः। रथान् हयान् पदातींश्च ममृदुः शतशो रणे॥
kecit krodhasamāviṣṭā madāndhā niravagrahāḥ| rathān hayān padātīṃśca mamṛduḥ śataśo raṇe||
Others, possessed with fury, and inflamed with shedding the temporal juice, and having none to restrain them, began to crush in that battle, horses and cars and soldiers by hundreds.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.39
तथा हया हयारोहैस्ताडिताः प्रासतोमरैः। तेन तेनाभ्यवर्तन्त कुर्वन्तो व्याकुला दिशः॥
tathā hayā hayārohaistāḍitāḥ prāsatomaraiḥ| tena tenābhyavartanta kurvanto vyākulā diśaḥ||
So also horses pierced with lances and dares by cavalry-soldiers, dashed against their assailants, as if agitating all the points of the compass.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.40
रथिनो रथिभिः सार्धं कुलपुत्रास्तनुत्यजः। परां शक्तिं समास्थाय चक्रुः कर्माण्यभीतवत्॥
rathino rathibhiḥ sārdhaṃ kulaputrāstanutyajaḥ| parāṃ śaktiṃ samāsthāya cakruḥ karmāṇyabhītavat||
Car-warriors born in noble families, and reckless of their lives, meeting their hostile compeers, fought on dauntlessly depending on their own excellent strength.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.41
स्वयंवर इवामर्दे प्रजह्वरितरेतरम्। प्रार्थयाना यशो राजन् स्वर्ग वा युद्धशालिनः॥
svayaṃvara ivāmarde prajahvaritaretaram| prārthayānā yaśo rājan svarga vā yuddhaśālinaḥ||
Those horses accomplished in battle, O king, desirous of securing either fame or paradise, smote down one another in that fierce carnage, as if in a Svayamvara.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 4 95.42
तस्मिंस्तथा वर्तमाने संग्रामे लोमहर्षणे। धार्तराष्ट्रं महत् सैन्यं प्रायशो विमुखीकृतम्॥
tasmiṃstathā vartamāne saṃgrāme lomaharṣaṇe| dhārtarāṣṭraṃ mahat sainyaṃ prāyaśo vimukhīkṛtam||
When that hair-string comb was thus raging, the troops belonging to Dhritarashtra's army were generally made to turn back their faces from the field of battle.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)